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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-03-01, Page 23dave' sykes ° ��. - ~ lkoow just how you feel. The winter lingers on and the short days and cold weather takes its toll on just about everyone. Do look for any -excuse, like starch i socks, to take a strip off the better half? Have yeti had an un- cootrnUable urge to tie the kids up outside for the woeboodorbite the dog? ' It's understandible. Putieuoo wears thin as winter stretches into March and unless one is into some stimulating activity, of the legal variety, this time of year tends to drive people bonkers. And this scribe is not ammune to the affliction. But a with a little imaginative and ingenous thought, dull winter days'can be transformed into excitLng times. For instance: For a real wbiibaugofu time invite some close friends over on a weekend night to wash out the muchworn long underwear. Sort of a group rub -in. Add the 0 spice to theparty-by wear the longies during the washing. But" don't get caught with your flap For an invigoratlng start to the day have the missus hang he wash outside to dry and discover how refreshing frozen uriderwear can be at 7 a.m. If the young ones get restless on a chilly March afternoon send them outside to. chisel the icicles off the hanging wash. If the family or friends are sincere about toning up those flabby bits have them attempt to push the family wagon out of the clogged driveway while the wife revs the Michelins to the linolf,w|tb tbo.carstill iu-pack.It's cure toraise o obnaln. Cut a hole in the living room floor and build a raging bonfire in the basement so flames shoo,t up' to the first floor where the family can roast wienies and chestnuts while watching the Muppets. qt. [tmakes for u cosy family outing. If your social life is your son into the basement and 'teach him the fine art of the o1upebot, in- sisting that mom play goal. Everything you wanted to do in the summer,but never got around to it ( picnics, long walks along the boaob, laying in the backyard hammock or painting the exterior of the house ) are so much easier now without the suno,uo, crowds. You'll be sure to be the only one on a picnic. Privacy at- last. r|amc Just for the hell of it take the family forSunday drive go Lake Huron to see if the lakerou//y is frozen right across toMicbigun. Just for a joke ori a bleak mprning completely hose down the neighbour's car and watch with great delight as he carefully picks his way into the automobile. Plan a gala swim party in the ��P. �= _ �N .�� �N�� � �� ��� ���m��N�� wm�m���m���� ��" Susan Freeman, student counsellor and manager of thCanada Eat 35 East Street in erb�xni|lbm, employers to do what the poster behind her says. There are always enough students to fill. the jobs but not enough orders from employers, she says. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) It's'a job to find a job! o ! BY JOANNE There's no doubt about it. The job situation is tight. But Guaub Freemuan, student placement counsellor and manager of the student placement program at the Canada Employment Centre for Students located on East Street in Goderich, is not discouraged. In fact she is optimiio that most students in the area can find jobs this summer if they follow a few simple rules. These rules include visiting her as soon as possible at the Employment Centre and registering for a job. Her job then involves coun- selling students and helping them to narrow down what kind of woilt they are looking for. She also gives tips on how to apply for a job. Susan gives the following advice to students or anyone looking for a job, for that matter: tell everyone you're looking for a job (word of mouth is im- portant); make a list of all possible employers; visit all of these em- ployers ; m'p)oyoro; fill in ap- plications early; keep looking at the want ads in your, local newspaper; and keep your ears open., Susan admits that it's a job in itself to find a job these days. It takes hard work and determination but it can be done. One of the reasons why it is important to visit the Employment Centre early, is tO fill in ap- plications for govern- ment programs like Ontario Experience '79, Young Canada Works, Junior Agdou|turuUat, Junior Ranger, etc. Deadlines for these ap-' plications come very soon, warns Susan. Many government programs allow students to invent their own summer jobs. Susan can supply students with a list of all these programs, ap- plication forms and addresses. Some students oan become self-employed if they are ingenious enough. There are all kinds of self-employment opportunitioo, especially in a tourist town like Goderich, says Susan. Students can cut grass, walk dogs, paint houses, wash cars, babysit and even organize groups of students, to perform various services. ' If worse comes to worse and a student can't find a summer job that pays money, the Student Employment Centre can help students get into Turn to page :IA • 132—YEAR 9 ^ backyard pool and as guests stand shiveringfrozen apologetically explain that the heating apparatus must be on the blink. Fills the wife's boots with slush before setting out for work in the morning. It's guaranteed to provake a cold shoulder treatment. Walk about the yard clad only in cutoff shorts and oaodmUs, with a comforting beverage in hand, and appear to be examining the prof the landscaping. It at least gives the neighbours a juicy bit to banter about. There never need be a dull moment during the winter months. Have you enjoyed them to the fullest.? How many stuck cars did you push �r how often did you get soggy pant legs and sock from shovelling the driveway? Probably not as many as you had hoped right? Well there's only 21 days to spring which isn't much time to cram in all these fun times. ' NAL �� �� . �� THURSDAY, MARCH 1,1979 , SECOND SECTION Beingaparentisa bigj�b BY JOANNE 0UCHANAN 8,eing a parent is a big job! That was the udo|�theme of a community seminar on child abuse held at the Huron County Famiiy and Children's Services agency last Wednesday evening. The xcnoinur, which was co-ordinated by parent voluhteoc Neva Muffitt and community child abuseworker Kathy Prydo, included afilm on child abuse on�8 A Chain Co be Broke a guest speaker, Dr. Don Ga|bruiUu, a psychiatrist and director of education at Children's Psyciatric Research Institute in London; and a panel consisting of •D&iko Cox, psychiatric social worker, Bob Dixon, Goderich policeman, Bill Wilson of tbo~ Ontario Provincial Police, Laurie Ginn, public health nurse, Dennis Wellwood, child abuse social worker, Helen Videan, Victoria Public School teacher, Paul Rivers, lawyer, Bonnie Grubum, Queen Elizabeth School teacher, the Reverend John Wood of Victoria Street United Church, and Grant, a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Before showinthe film on chitd abuse, Dr. Brian Lynch, Huron County Medical Officer of Health and moderator of the yuoo|, said the seminar was an attempt to bring child abuse out of the closet. Many people don't .think that child abuse happens in Huron Co But it can hain one's very own neighbo It is a human problem which has been with us for a very long time. Family and Children's Services worked with over 40,, abusing and neglecting families last year in Huron County so it is apparent that it does happen here. And those cases may only be the tip of he iceberg. The, _film pointed out that everyone is capable of abusing children': 7bero| aro always. pressures within the family and children are usually the safest targets for abuse because of these Abuse ,ouo range -from ,physical and sexual to verbal or more passive abuse such as physical and emotional neglect. Since there is no formal training on how to be a parent, most people learn how to parent from the way they were raiscd, said the film. Most abusive parents' have been abused children themselves and think it's a normal part of life. It's. difficult to give a child something you yourself did not have. Parenting is not an instinctive thing. Basically we alt have it in us to be child abusers and abusers should simply be looked at as ordinary people who have a problem with impulse ^� control and self-esteem, said the film. The film" ended 'by saying that if vvatcr. Croom. whu)eo, dolphins and sea@ were worth onneorviog, why not children? Dr. Galbraith told the audience that there are about 50 cases of child abuse per 100,000 population in Canada. The press merelfocuses on the more dramatic cases where severe in- jury or death has occured n'juryordoathbnoocoucod but child abuse is much broader than that, he said. Detection of oeibaT abuse is much more dlfficult, he added. Dr. Oolhruith, himself a father of three, said sometimes he wondered if peole spent too much time thinking of parents' rights instead of children's rights. He said that society really has to get down to primary prevention. For years, he said, parent education and training has been ignored: Most children learn concepts of parenting from their own parents. So, if they are abused as children, they usually become abusive., parents. Right now, society deals only witj-i secondary prevention, said Galbraith. An early diagnosis f child abuse is made and tlien something is done uhgtit it, and not before. The audience got into a discussion on verbal abuse with the panl, only to learn that verbal abuse is not defined in the Child "Welfare Act. Lmmyer, Paul Rivcrm, said verbal abuse would be a very difficult thing to prove in a court of law. Most of those in the audience agreed that they have alt shouted mean things at their children i anger on occassion. But it was also agreed that verbal abuse would depend upon the frequency of the message dbot the child kotfrom his parents. Dr^ Galbraith said children get the message "I'm okay or I'm riot okay' from dboir - paronta, The latter negative message can often result in behaviour problems in the child later. Rev. Wood said he felt some child abuse might be the result of broken homes and the breaking down of society in general. ' Director of Family and Children's Services, John Penn, said that he felt that there had not been a sudden increase�in the number of child abuse cases or a dramatic change inthe structure of the family. }{e said that he felt instead that there was more awareness on the part' f the com- munity now and that Tarn to page 16A • Community Child Abuse Worker, Kathy Pryde of Family and Children's Services, discusses ufilm oo child abuse with Dr. Brian Lynch; Huron County Mcdirul Offleer of Health and Dr. Don Galbraith, a psychiatrist and director of educatlon at Children's Psychiatric Research Institute in London. Pryde was the co-ordinator, Lynch the moderator and Galbraith, the guest speaker at al ' seminar held on child abuse last Wednesday evening. (Photo by Jo'anne Buchanan) It didn't just happen. I'm not peRpared to believe that a totaled of the sun went unnoticed by all those promoters out there waiting for their shot at ,,the big time. Somebody, somewhere had to realize that a total eclipse of the sun could make- some money. 1 realize the eclipse would be tough to restrict. It's not like a boxing match for the heavyweight title of the worldth t can easily be !fumed into millions of dollars in profits. How can you make sure. the guy on the street will not look up at the eclipse without buying his ticket like everyone else. The awnser is in not trying to make ° phenomenon. Don't get greedy. You don't have to hit on every Tom, Dick `*andHarry just Tom and Dick. For starters a good promoter would have billed the event as Mother Nature's grand finale for this century. Oh she may throw the odd earthquake at us before the end of the century Wet to keep us on our toes but odds are the eclipse will go unoppOsed in the 20th century. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chose Winnipeg to televise the eclipse and fbeco'o ho reason our promoter could not have done something similar. Winnipeg has a football team and that team plays in a stadium. For a few bucks everyone that curl* to the stadium coda have been issued eclipse glasses to watch the event and been given choice seats from which to view it. Box seats would have been a little more expensive and canteenreoeiptoyronp the sale ofcoffee and hot dogs may have amounted to a nice little profit. The CBC might have been convinced thatthe eclipse wouldget high ratings and a good prornoter could have taken advantage of that. If nothing else millions of people,were advised not to watch the eclipse since it may cause eye damage and while a percentage of those people would have watched anyway the majority would have settled for television coverage. Sole rights to the eclipse could have been purchased and the resulting special could have made a few bucks. Imagine the disaster movie that could be made. People standing in the streets watching in awe as the moon passes in front of the §un. Darkness envelops the earth. The sun creates a beautiful hato around the moon. The television newscaster gets carried away describing the beauty of the ov"eot. Be cautions people about staring at the sun with no eye - protection and advises everyone that within minutes the eclipse will be over and the diamond ring effect will up' peac. The minutes pass and nothing happens. The moon is stuck. Somehow some gravitational screw up has caused the moon to stand between the earth and the sun. People runabout screaming. Mothers snatch up babies and head for safety. The combined gravitational pull of the sun and the moon throws the tidal pattern of the oceans off and salt water begins to pour over land flooding cities. Hideous creatures from the deep begin to wander about New York, which is now under several hundred feet of water. Night creatures, safe in the darkness of the eo|ipxo, begin to hunt at will. The world is thrown into a pariic. Not to fear. The Americans and Ruooiuns, normally at odds, unite to aave' the world. Speically equipped missiles are strategically placed around the world and simultaneously fired at the moon and despite over- whelming odds. they do their job and the moon continues on itsway and the earth is saved. It may not be high on your en- tertainment list but somebody will watch it. If you think there is any possiblity any of .this trash could have actually ewe about keep your eye on the weather maps. Mother Nature could whip up a tidal wave for the eastern seaboard that Could make you a little something. Bleahers could be set up to watch the big evont, television rights could be bou8ht, the biggest surfing cofltest eVer staged could be held � �m�w� � [ � ����� � �� _ seddon- / I 1� 'tik � ^141' �